A Letter From Your Teacher First Day Book Companion with Book Review Pennant

This A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School Book Companion comes with a variety of tools to engage your students and help you maximize teachable moments as you explore this text. This beautiful book by Shannon Olsen is a wonderful and heartfelt story to share with your students as you head back to school.

Included you will find fun resources that will help you work with your students on making predictions, text structure, setting, main idea, making connections, vocabulary, and more! In addition, you will also receive 12 writing prompts, exit tickets, and a short quiz that include a variety of text-dependent questions and ideas for you and your students to explore.

I have include a wealth of activities for you to choose from. Choose the ones that work best for you and your students!

Use to Teach the Following Concepts

• Making Predictions
• Inferencing
• Main Idea and Details
• Theme
• Sequencing
• Summarizing
• Setting
• Characterization
• Making Connections
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Vocabulary
• AND MORE

A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School Resources and Activities

1. Morning Greetings
2. Letter Comic
3. A Letter to My Teacher
4. A New Start
5. My Story Predictions
6. Making Predictions (make predictions based on what has been read so far)
7. Listen and Draw
8. Story Elements (character, setting, conflict, resolution)
9. 2 Story Maps
10. Sequencing (beginning, middle, end)
11. What’s the Story About (main idea and details)
12. List of Picture Book Themes
13. Identifying Theme and Supporting Evidence
14. A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School (who, what, where, when, why, how)
15. Drawing the Setting
16. Describing the Setting
17. Main Idea and Story Summary
18. A Lot of Character (identifying character traits)
19. Making Connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world)
20. Making Connections (the text says, this reminds me of)
21. Facts and Questions
22. The Best Part
23. Problem Identification and Writing
24. Problem and Solution
25. Sequence of Events (first, next, then, last)
26. Book Summary Writing
27. Book Summary Organizer (somebody, wanted, but, so, then)
28. 12 Writing Prompts (4 opinion, 4 narrative, 4 informative)
29. First Day Jitters Themed Writing Paper
30. Straight from the Text
31. 2 Cause and Effect (1 filled in and 1 blank)
32. Character Response
33. Reader’s Response
34. Picture This Vocabulary
35. 4 Word Study Activities
36. Cover Artist (design a new cover for the book)
37. Book Critic (your thoughts on the book)
38. 3 Thoughtful Exit Tickets
39. A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School Comprehension Questions
40. Book Review Pennant Craft

We hope you find these A Letter From Your Teacher on the First Day of School Book Companion activities as you head back to school this school year! Wishing you the very best.

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